When you sign on to a UNIX Spawner Program (sastcpd), you might receive one of the following messages after the remote SAS invocation statement in the tcpunix.scr script file:

Error 1:

ERROR: Cannot start remote process.

Error 2

Goodbye

If the -VERBOSE option is set on the spawner, the following error is reported in the verbose trace log:

child process 28718 has exited, exit status 
was 104.

This problem occurs when the number of groups in which the connecting user ID is a member exceeds the value of NGROUPS_MAX.

To determine the value of NGROUPS_MAX, submit the following command from a UNIX command prompt:

To determine the number of groups in which a user ID is a member, submit the following command from a UNIX command prompt:

If the number of groups in which the user ID is a member exceeds the returned value of NGROUPS_MAX, then you must remove the user ID from the number of groups that exceeds the NGROUPS_MAX value in order for the sign-on connection to be successful.

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